In this world, there are monsters, Tao, demons, Buddhas, courts, wars, and disputes.

The world is divided into four continents, namely Shenzhou in the east, Niuhezhou in the west, Luzhou in the north, and Buzhou in the south.

Beyond the four continents, there is the vast endless sea. It is said that there are countless fairy mountains and islands overseas. However, over the years, people who have gone out to sea to search for fairy traces and relics have left one after another, but no one has returned.

Dongsheng Shenzhou.

Daqing Dynasty.

In the first year of Jisheng, the late emperor passed away and the young emperor ascended the throne. The emperor was named Jisheng, and the empress dowager assisted the government behind the curtain.

The dynasty is divided into thirty-six provinces, and the princes in each province have different intentions and are in a state of separatist rule.

Thieves and bandits occupy the mountains and become kings.

Wild monsters and human demons are running rampant.

The world is in chaos.

And now it is the twelfth year of the Ji Sheng calendar.

Daqing Dynasty, southern part, Jinping Province, at the foot of Qingniu Mountain, Qingniu Village.

This is a small village that has made a living by inheriting crafts from generation to generation.

In Qingniu Village, the wooden fence covers an area of ​​ten miles, so it is also called Qingniu Ten Mile Ao.

today.

In the village, children were playing barefoot, and a hungry and thin old horse was taking a nap. In the center of the village, there was an old man in his seventies, surrounded by a group of children, telling stories.

The seventy-year-old man is the oldest person in the village, has lived the longest, and has the most knowledge.

Legend has it that the old man has seen monsters, wars, and high-ranking officials.

Therefore, the children in the village, when they have nothing to do, like to pester the grandfather to tell absurd legends outside the village.

"Grandpa, are there any immortals outside the village?"

What children like to listen to the most is the magnificent and strange tales of immortals and demons.

Grandpa was sitting on a simple wicker chair, shaking his cattail leaf fan. He smiled and shook his head in a grand manner: "Hey, in the whole world, except for the Qijue Empress who stepped through the void five thousand years ago and ascended to heaven, who dares to call herself an immortal?"

When the children heard this, they quickly asked who the Qijue Empress was.

As the saying goes, the older you live, the more you know. When the old man traveled around the world, he was also a graceful and beautiful prodigal. Now surrounded by children, he did not hide it and casually told the stories spread in the world.

"Legend has it that five thousand years ago, the Qijue Empress emerged from nowhere and was invincible in the world."

"Grandpa, grandpa, who is the Empress Qijue?"

"Oh, little guy, you don't know something. The Empress Qi Jue is a stunningly talented person. Legend has it that her face is as beautiful as a flower, her features are as exquisite as jade, and her figure is as delicate as smoke. However, every time she appears, she is enveloped in...

In the terrifying glow, no one can know the true face of the Qijue Empress."

"There are even legends that there was a man who was equally astonishing and talented. In order to get a glimpse of the true appearance of the Qijue Empress, he used various methods and magical powers to finally break the protective glow of the Qijue Empress. Guess what happened in the end?"

In order to gain a sense of presence, the old man even resorted to cover-up tactics.

Sure enough, the children's curiosity was instantly aroused. With their shining eyes, they shook the grandfather's thigh and asked him to come quickly.

The old man shook his head, raised the corners of his mouth, and slowly said two words: "Dead."

The children were shocked: "The Empress Qi Jue is dead?"

"Bah! What are you melons thinking in your heads! The one who dares to offend the empress must die!"

"Why did you die?"

"Hey, you don't know something. Legend has it that the Qi Jue Empress is so beautiful that men die from anger the moment they see her true appearance."

"Wow!"

The children were so naive that they covered their eyes in fear. It was as if they could imagine the beautiful face of the Qijue Empress, and with this gesture, they expressed that they did not dare to look any further.

The old man was very satisfied with the children's praise. He ended the story with one sentence: "From then on, no one saw the true face of the Empress, until the Empress Qijue stepped through the void and ascended to the upper world, and her beauty became

An ancient legend."

at this time.

A discordant questioning voice came from not far away.

"Uncle Niu, there is a doubt in your story. It doesn't make sense logically." A young man with pale skin and ordinary appearance sat on a big stone by the roadside in the village at some point, pointing his finger and laughing.

: "Since no one has seen the true appearance of the Qi Jue Empress, how come anyone knows that the Qi Jue Empress is as beautiful as a flower, as exquisite as jade, and as delicate as smoke?"

The old man stared at his cloudy eyes and was speechless for a moment.

Although he didn't know if "logic" could be eaten, he didn't know how to formulate a strong statement to refute the second half of the boy's sentence.

"Besides, these adjectives are too exaggerated. You can tell at a glance that they are imaginary words that add fuel to the fire. Maybe the legendary Empress Qijue was ugly and did not dare to meet people with her true face. What woman doesn't like her beauty?

Where are people watching?”

When the old man heard this, he became even more angry. He raised a finger, his face turned red with anger, his fingers trembled, he felt dizzy, dizzy, palpitated, chest tight, his lips trembled for a long time, and he couldn't say a single word.

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But the old man didn't respond. When the children saw the white-faced boy sitting on the big rock talking and laughing, they reacted greatly.

"It's a freak from the Lin family!"

"It's that freak!"

"Mom told me not to play with freaks."

"My father said, never get close to the Lin family's freaks."

"My aunt said that freaks who come near the Lin family will get sick!"

"My second uncle said that the freaks who come into contact with the Lin family will have bugs on their bodies!"

"No, my uncle Dong said, he will grow red hair!"

"Wow, how scary!"

"How scary!"

"Fear!"

It seemed that the children were not joking. They really believed in the evil spirits. When the boy approached, all their pink faces turned green.

Phew~

In an instant, the children were rolling around and scattered like birds and beasts. One was even frightened by the legends about "freaks" and fell halfway. His face was covered with mud and he peed all over his pants.

Howling on the ground.

After seeing the children disperse.

The old man finally regained his breath. He looked helplessly at the white-faced boy on the stone and sighed: "You weird boy from the Lin family, what are you doing here today?"

The Lin family boy grinned: "Don't get excited, I came here today to ask a question."

…

The Lin family in Qingniu Village has passed down the carpentry craftsmanship for a living from generation to generation.

The Lin family's generation of craftsmen struggled to have children, so they traveled every month to the Golden Temple, thirty miles away from Qingniu Village, to worship Buddha and ask for a child.

Finally, they succeeded.

When Mrs. Lin gave birth to her son, she was already in her forties. She was frail, her milk sac was shy, and her milk was scarce.

It is said that at that time, Carpenter Lin spent a lot of money to go to the county town fifteen miles away and hired a young nurse to nurse the baby.

But something strange is coming.

This Lin family's child has been doing strange things ever since he was born.

On the day of birth, the midwife saw the baby standing upright and motionless. She thought the baby had died, and was so frightened that she patted the soles of the baby's feet. But at the end of the photo, the baby suddenly raised his head and stared, with a clear look in his eyes.

The emotion of "angry".

The midwife had seen such strange things, and felt that something was fishy, ​​and she had nightmares every night. So after delivering the baby for Carpenter Lin, she washed her hands in a golden basin, decided not to be contaminated with meat, and retired from the world.

The old carpenter Lin couldn't care less about the difficulty. Let's just blame him. He survived after all, right?

But something even stranger is yet to come.

Not to mention that the Lin baby's white and tender body was born with a strange birthmark.

After the baby was born, when Carpenter Lin was thinking hard about the baby's name, the infant once again stared with his eyes wide open and held up his index finger, as if he meant something.

Finally, Carpenter Lin also believed in the evil and felt that the child was unusual, so he named the child "Lin Yi".

When Lin Yi was one month old, he refused to sip the milk from his wet nurse. This made Mr. Lin and his wife's heads turn white with worry. In the end, they had no choice. They were afraid that Lin Yi would starve to death due to a hunger strike, so they could only eat porridge and rice cereal.

He worked hard to raise Lin Yi.

When Lin was half a year old, he could walk freely in a pocket cloth. At that time, Carpenter Lin thought that the Lin family had a genius. Hey, isn't genius just about being weird? So Carpenter Lin didn't let go of all the weird things that happened when Lin Yi was born.

In my heart, I even felt arrogant because Lin Yi walked on the ground for the first time and held a big banquet in the village.
To be continued...